Posts Tagged ‘Walker Talks’
Walker Talks…
on the Eranos Conferences
Sunday, April 26th at 2:30 pm
Beginning in 1933, in Ascona, Switzerland, there gathered annually an intellectual conclave of Jungians and Pythagoreans, philosophers and theologians, orientalists and historians of religions, ethnologists, Indologists, Islamists, Egyptologists, mythologists and scientists, to present learned and imaginative papers, interact with one another, enjoy the invigorating setting and relax in the hospitality in those early years of a…
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Sunday, Jan. 25th at 2:30 pm
Walker Talks! on Marsilio Ficino,
musician and philosopher
of the Renassiance
Walker Brents III continues his exploration of the mystical side of the Renaissance, with a talk on Marsilio Fichino, a musician and philosopher whose symbolic thought contributes greatly to contemporary poetic speech.
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Sunday, November 30th – 2:30 pm
Nostradamus: The Plague Doctor
Who Saw Through Time
A Walker Talk!
Walker Talks! Â The last Sunday of each month… This month, Walker Brents III ponders an enigmatic 16th century seer, a doctor in a time of plagues and cataclysms whose uncanny ruminations and oblique, dire prophecies of the future have dazzled and intrigued generations. Nostradamus was a learned and intuitive scholar, a renaissance humanist, a symbolist…
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Sunday, September 28th – 2:30 p.m.
Walker Talks!
Eriugena’s theology of the logos
Walker Brents IIIÂ weaves a fascinating web of insight, association, speculation and delight the last Sunday of every month, following his muse where it takes him on topics divers — from epic literature to mythological tales to the enigmas of poetry and the profundities of philosophy and religion. Today at 2:30, join his many devotees to…
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Sunday, March 30th — 2:30 pm
Hildegard von Bingen:
A Talk by Walker Brents III
“Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of the king with great honor. Then it pleased the king to raise a small feather from the ground, and he commanded it to fly. The feather flew, not because of…
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Sunday, January 26th, 2:30-4:00 pm
Lines & Letters:
A Hydra-Headed Poetic Symposium
Walker Brents III offers a contemplative glance of the poem as a whole image of itself. See with the ears, Hear with the eyes. The last Sunday of each month, Walker Brents takes us along another meander. Â Where it takes you is the question…
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